The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counseling

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The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counseling​ - William Johnston
Originally written in Middle English by an unknown mystic of the fourteenth century, The Cloud of Unknowing represents the first expression in our own tongue of the soul's quest for God. A literary work of great beauty in both style and message, it offers a practical guide to the path of contemplation. The author explains how all thoughts and concepts must be buried beneath a "cloud of forgetting," while our love must rise toward God hiddden in the "cloud of unknowing." William Johnston--an authority on fourteenth-century spirituality and on the writings of this unknown author--provides a substantive and accessible introduction detailing what is known about the history of htis text and its relevance throughout the ages. Included here is the author's other principal work, The Book of Privy Counseling--a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and consciousness only of the divine. In a new foreword, Huston Smith shows The Cloud of Unknowing as a highly relevant text for today's spirituality, containing essential elements from the varieties of religious experience.

William Johnston has translated several works from the contemplative traditions of both East and West, as well as work by the great Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo.

Huston Smith, the author of The World's Religions, is widely regarded as the most eloquent and accessible contemporary authority on the history of religions. He has taught at MIT and the University of California, Berkeley.

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208 pages
ISBN-13: 9780385030977    

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